Stroud Community TV Awards for 2015 films

This page was last updated 9th March 2016

‘Oscat’ awarded to winners

As part of the Stroud Film Festival, Stroud Community TV once again celebrated the best of Stroud films at The Crown and Sceptre pub on Wednesday 9th March. Below we list the winners in section one, all the nominations in section two and our judges in section three. You can see more about the amazing evening at: http://stroudcommunity.tv/awards-evening2015/

Background: From 1st January members of the public have nominated their best films in one or more of the categories below. The films for nomination have to have been uploaded during 2015 to Stroud Community TV. The films with the most nominations are listed below and went to our team of local judges (also listed below). We announced the winning films on 9th March at The Crown and Sceptre pub. Our film night was part of the hugely successful Stroud Film Festival. You can also find details of the Young Film Makers evening which Stroud Community TV supported here.

See previous winners and nominations – for 2014 here, 2013 here and for 2012 here. As always huge thanks to local artist Russ, for the cartoons and ‘Oscats’. Plus big thanks to James Banks for photographs on the Awards evening; you can see his website full of great photos here.

1. Winners 2015

Still from the film

Callum Bonner getting Oscat from Archie Cox (Photo by James Banks)

Best Local film

‘Autos’: a film by Callum Bonner of Nailsworth looking at the feelings and difficulties of being on the Autistic Spectrum and how it can be overcome. Callum wrote of the film: ‘At the time of making this I developed a fascination and hobby for photographing and filming different forms of reflections. I used this method to create a film in order to use the reflections as a visual metaphor for talking about one’s self.’ See: http://stroudcommunity.tv/autos/

Reg Cobb from GDA receiving Oscat from Philip Booth (photo by James Banks)

Best Campaign film

‘Dave The Signer’ by Reg Cobb, Ceilidh-Jo Rowe, Hannah Ede and James Banks for GDA. Reg Cobb said; “Booking a fully qualified British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter is imperative in certain situations – financial in particular. Without a qualified BSL interpreter vital communication can be missed and a deaf person left bewildered and confused as to the best options available to them are. Deaf people want to be independent and take control of their own lives, having a BSL interpreter at appointments is just one way that their independence can be achieved. We hope our series of Deaf awareness films, including ‘Dave the Signer’ encourage more organisations to make their services more accessible for Deaf people. The response to the films has been fantastic and this award is the cherry on top of a very big cake”. See: http://stroudcommunity.tv/more-deaf-aware1/

Best Music Film

Hattie Briggs receiving Oscat from Pip Heywood (photo by James Banks)Best Stroud Music film

Chris Uttley of Stroud District Councillor receiving Oscat from Philip Booth (Photo by James Banks)

Best ‘Green’ film

Films that highlight environmental and/or social justice issues.

A film about Rural Sustainable Drainage. Chris Uttley, the Rural SuDS Project Officer at Stroud District council who commissioned the film was able to share how the film came about and answer questions about how well the measures are working to reduce flooding in the Frome catchment: http://stroudcommunity.tv/rural-sustainable-drainage/

Sophronie getting Oscat after audience votes her track the best (Photo by James Banks)

Audience Award

Three music videos had received a similar numbers of nominations by the public; Ryan Devine, Sophronie and Clear Conscience. The three films were shown during the evening and the audience at The Crown and Sceptre asked to vote on their favourite to gain the Audience Award. Sophronie with Eyes Wide made with Ragged Moon Studios in Stroud was the winner: http://stroudcommunity.tv/sophronie-eyes-wide/

Emma James, local film and tv producer who runs the Cotswold Film and Location Office (credits include Cider with Rosie and The Casual Vacancy)

Camilla Bassett-Smith, Assistant Producer on many BBC programmes including the ‘Great British Garden Revival’

Niks Patel, Ragged Moon Music Studio

Megan Titley, Reporter at Stroud News and Journal

Helen Royall, Musician and Event Organiser for Transition Stroud

Ine Christensen, Peoples judge

Charlotte Saunders, film maker/media student

Peter Richardson, Director, Stroud Community TV

Vicky Temple, Stroud Life

Special thanks

Once again big thanks to our local cartoonist Russ for the great logos and ‘Oscat’ trophy’s. Also big thanks for helping plan and organise Stroud Community TV Awards evening goes to Steve Hurrell, photographer, Stroud Town Councillor and television documentary producer and media producer.